Oxford Movement

This tract had the result of getting the Tract s banned. Tutors at Oxford wrote to demand the author's resignation, principals of colleges drew up a manifesto against it, and the university's Hebdomadal Board condemned it.

Sir Richard Calmady, Dickie, named after his athletic father but grotesquely deformed, grows up in isolation, carefully sheltered, while the neighbours develop rumours of Papism in Marie de Mirancourt, an old family friend, and Julian...

Mill announces in his introductory chapter that his subject will be Civil, or Social Liberty: the nature and limits of the power which can be legitimately exercised by society over the individual. Freedom of choice...

With her friend Lady Harriet Howard , the future CFA contributed to tracts for the Oxford Movement , published during these years.

In 1866 JHN published his religious poem The Dream of Gerontius in book form, after it appeared in The Month the previous year. He had also anonymously published two novels, Loss and Gain (1848), and...

CC anonymously published a satire on John Henry Newman and the Oxford Movement : Saint Oldooman, a myth of the nineteenth century, contained in a letter from the Bishop of Verulanum to the Lord Drayton...

In Mrs. Gerald's Niece Margaret, the heroine of Grantley Manor, is now Mrs Walter Sydney and is thirty-seven. The new novel engages with the Oxford Movement , detailing the doctrinal progression of Ita and...

Her letters, on the evidence of those included in Dorothea Mozley 's Newman Family Letters (published by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge in 1962), are highly intelligent and entertaining. As a girl she rattles...